Chapter LIII. for the Relief of Edward N
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Chap. LIII.— An Act for the Relief of Edward N. Kent.May 22, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Edward N.$20,000 to be paid Edward N. Kent, for use of his apparatus for separating gold, &c. Kent, of New York, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars in full compensation for the perpetual use in all the present and future minting establishments of the United States, of the apparatus for separating gold and other precious metals from foreign substances, of which the said Edward N.
Kent is the inventor and patentee: *Provided,* The said Edward N. Kent shall have first secured to the United States the perpetual use of the said apparatus as aforesaid, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, May 22, 1860.